Before you came
I spoke through rivers
and trees, the flat plains
spilling distance out to where
the world was a mirage
and time shimmered dreamlike
plunging downwards
into a vast inner sea.
Fish swam where now rocky
outcrops rise above the red earth
and exotic lifeforms floated
silently through a celestial dark.
All was an ocean of dream,
creations womb where earth,
sky and water were one
before being born
and pulled apart.
Prolific artist Paul Klee
loved both art&poetry
Taking a line for a walk
was not just theoretcal talk
Klee set the art world free
in his Once emerged from the grey of night' poetry
Unifying colour & words
An idea never previously heard
An experimental start
With his posey picture art-
Matisse
brushed
no more..
scissors
paper
glue
the
colour
cut-outs
littered
the floor
with
shapes
anew
so blue
so blue
of
osmosis mode
maquettes
& abstracts
shapely
but
stark
Once emerged from the grey of night.
In magnificent memory of Vee See’s zaniest chimpanzee
Probably discussed by merry monkey’s chipping chickadee
Readily and aptly apparent by three who seldom agree
Incredibly supping with Mamie, Marjorie and Mr. Paul Klee
Please pass the honey and the light brie said brazen bumblebee.
No one capably eats brie with lemon tea said a flickering flea.
Advice is free but listen, skinny skeleton, I dare you to try and oversee.
Chimpanzee and chickadee fell down laughing at this on one knee.
......O. .
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TAKING A LINE FOR A WALK - Paul Klee
*poetic melange
of artistic
wordplay
*Once emerged
from the grey
of nigh
Paul Klee set art free
with poetic art for all to see
'Once emerged ftom grey of night'
an inventive wordpicture to delight
From Bauhaus was talented Klee
mixing art&poetry
An intellectual was Paul
to both he always gave his 'all'
Unifying colour & words
An idea never previously heard,
An experimental start
With his poetry picture art-
Paul Klee set the art world free.
NOTE: Uniquely Klee combines a poem( in German),within his art
'Once emerged from the grey of night'.(as seen in link)
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